The worst day fishing is better than the best day working… If anybody were to host experts on coldwater fisheries, it would be Montana State University at Bozeman. I lived a couple blocks from campus when I worked for Gallatin County. The Yellowstone River to the east, the Madison River to the west, and the […]
Trout Unlimited 50th Anniversery
Every River Has It’s Own Story. Trout Unlimited—known affectionately as TU—turns 50 years old this year. Founded by a group of outdoorsmen and conservationists in Michigan, the organization is a pre-eminent voice for coldwater fish, fisheries and habitat. TU is not just a flyfishing sportsman’s club. The orgnization works to conserve, protect and restore streams […]
A Futurist's View of Rural Development, and more
Blandin Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future Here’s a chance to listen in on some really smart people discuss some important issues for Greater Minnesota and Rural America. I worked with Dr. Delore Zimmerman when I was an Associate at the Center for the New West and executive director at Traill County Economic Development Commission. […]
SRDC Spotlight: Broadband Infrastructure
Broadband internet access is increasingly essential infrastructure for business, agriculture, education and most other aspects of day-to-day life. Communities must have broadband to compete in today’s economy. USDA’s Economic Research Service states the situation in clear terms in a report released last month: In this decade, “rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had […]
Making the Grade
The only list that matters is the list that makes a place our own
A Centennial of Cooperation
4-H, Extension & Communities that thrive
Biggest Opportunity for Rural Economic Development since Invention of the Tractor
Minnesota Business profiles local wind energy developer
Rochester Bio-tech Park in the Headlines
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has some “investigative reporting” in the Sunday paper today, looking at G. Steven Burrill’s proposed Elk Run bio-science development on the road between Rochester and the Twin Cities, in Southeast Minnesota. As you may recall, Mr. Burrill gave a Big Picture talk about the state of human and agricultural bio-technologies at the Worthington Bio-Science Conference last spring. I […]
Broadband Means Business in Rural Minnesota
UMN EDA Center broadband study “Rural Businesses and the Internet: The Integration Continues”
Main Street Spearfish
Historic Commercial District Architecture